Increase Your Score in 3 Minutes a Day: ACT Reading

by James Schaffer, Randall McCutheon, Randall McCutcheon

Book Overview

Accessible, concise guides for quicker, more effective studying

These new additions to the Increase Your Score series present key principles and practical strategies for the ACT Writing Test (new for 2005) and the ACT Reading Test, explained in manageable, bite-size sections ideal for the panicked student. Combining humor with academic authority, these succinct guides:

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071456678
• ISBN13: 9780071456678
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Good for improving reading skill. Practice passages not like real thing.

If you are having trouble finishing the ACT reading test, the general reading advice in this book should help you improve your reading speed and comprehension. However, the practice passages in this book are not like the real thing. Use this book only to improve your speed and comprehension and practice on real tests instead of the tests in this book. That way you will understand how the real ACT reading test works. Once you understand how the test works you can get a very high score on the reading if you can finish the test. Disclosure: I am the author of Dissecting the ACT: A Unique Student Perspective on the ACT or ACT Test Prep with Real ACT questions .

Great book...

I can recommend this book to all who are trying to up their points on the ACT. My daughter loved it. It gives lots of great tips on reading better for speed and knowledge.

Great Improvement in ACT score

This book helped my daughter raise her ACT score 4 points, with the largest improvement being in reading. A great resource. Recommend it highly.

Great

So after taking my first ACT, I was surprised to find my reading sub-score to be the lowest. After a momentary loss of sanity I decided it would be best for me just to get help rather than belly-ache. I chose this book because it seemed like an easy and effective tool that was exactly what I was looking for. This book raised my reading score significantly, and its no longer the lowest (blast that Math). Buy it if you struggled on the ACT reading, it provides advise and test-taking strategies.

An ACT survivor

A must-buy for the ACT. If you only buy one book to prepare for this test, make sure it's this one. The strategies are specific and useful. No wasteful filler like you find in the other prep books. The authors tell you exactly what to do to increase your score. And the book is fun to read.